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Announcing your plan to leave the country is going to get you arrested and held without bail. Hire a real world criminal defense attorney now and hope the court will let you trade your passport for an ankle monitor.

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Maybe he's not resident in the US (nor a US citizen) and just returned home?

If he’s a foreign national who never wants to visit the US again for any reason, and can expect his country not to extradite him for whatever the charge is, then it is a reasonable strategy.

Countries usually don't extradite their own citizens. That is one. Second, it seems to have been a traffic related issue. Do people get extradited for traffic related offences?

Lastly, I didn't say he didn't have to get good representation. I totally would if I was in his shoes. Don't skimp on a good lawyer.

Yes I do not expect to be extradited, and I am not in U.S. anymore (since several years). However, being "wanted" in the U.S. can have negative impact on job applications to American (and some non-American) companies even in other countries, and of course - travelling to the U.S. for vacation trips is difficult.

I understand now. Where you wrote “I am not staying in the U.S.” I took that to mean that you were leaving the US, but you meant that you are currently not living in the US. I think your plan is exactly right, find good representation before traveling to the US. It would be best to deal with this problem in a planned out way rather than simply arriving in the country and being arrested somewhere.

Nobody gets extradited over non-felony charges.

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